topic Strange characters in edit widget attributes in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/strange-characters-in-edit-widget-attributes/m-p/684768#M20789 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am using the sample flex viewer out-of-the-box edit widget and SQL Server Express with SDE.&nbsp; I am on ArcGIS 10.&nbsp; When I create a polygon feature on my map, the attributes box pops up and the default text in my "description" attribute are some Chinese/Japanese characters: "???????"&nbsp; Please see screenshot below.&nbsp; I am using subtypes with no default values.&nbsp; Does someone know why I am seeing this behavior?&nbsp; Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:22:36 GMT StuartBlumberg 2011-12-14T20:22:36Z Strange characters in edit widget attributes https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/strange-characters-in-edit-widget-attributes/m-p/684768#M20789 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am using the sample flex viewer out-of-the-box edit widget and SQL Server Express with SDE.&nbsp; I am on ArcGIS 10.&nbsp; When I create a polygon feature on my map, the attributes box pops up and the default text in my "description" attribute are some Chinese/Japanese characters: "???????"&nbsp; Please see screenshot below.&nbsp; I am using subtypes with no default values.&nbsp; Does someone know why I am seeing this behavior?&nbsp; Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:22:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/strange-characters-in-edit-widget-attributes/m-p/684768#M20789 StuartBlumberg 2011-12-14T20:22:36Z Re: Strange characters in edit widget attributes https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/strange-characters-in-edit-widget-attributes/m-p/684769#M20790 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I put the characters into Google Translate and got: �? expansion �?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Does this help at all?&nbsp; Prob not...</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:01:20 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/strange-characters-in-edit-widget-attributes/m-p/684769#M20790 StuartBlumberg 2011-12-21T19:01:20Z Re: Strange characters in edit widget attributes https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/strange-characters-in-edit-widget-attributes/m-p/684770#M20791 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>In case anybody cares or comes across this problem, I contacted ESRI support and we found that my data somehow became corrupted.&nbsp; I created a new dataset and the problem went away.&nbsp; If anybody knows what happened please let me know.&nbsp; Thanks.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:34:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-viewer-for-flex-questions/strange-characters-in-edit-widget-attributes/m-p/684770#M20791 StuartBlumberg 2012-01-10T15:34:47Z